On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:53:36 -0700 Dan Egli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote: > > > > > > > Nothing has changed on my end (portage, rsync, commuincations, etc.) in a long > > time, but rsync is totally dead - always times out. I've tried disabling the > > firewall (stop shorewall, then shorewall clear), but I get the same results > > without the firewall. > > > > I'm starting to look at a tcpdump. > > > > Can anyone shed any light on this??? > > > > I'm on cable with a router and dhcp, if that makes any difference. emerge <pkg>, > > email, browser, etc. all work normally. I tried re-emerging rsync. The problem > > exists for any and all rsync mirrors. > > > > > Of my head sounds like your cable provider started blocking the rsync > port. Simple test would be to telnet to one of the rsync mirrors into > their rsync port. If you are able to connect then the port is not > blocked. If you cannot connect then you are likely looking at a blocked > TCP Port. A lot of Cable ISPs do that. My Cable ISP blocks all the > netbios ports, which would not be so bad if I did not occasionally need > to access my Win32 machines. > > --- Dan > > p.s. if you don't recall the port, you can always just telnet <host> rsync. > I'm thinking that you are correct. I get the same behavior from the other gentoo machine on my local net. This is apparently a recent change by comcast. So, this now brings up the related question: what are the implications of only doing emerge-webrsync to sync the portage tree? -- Collins - Denver Area - Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
